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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.5.12.pr-50.5.12.1

Reappointment Ban for Envoys and Exemptions for Aides

Passage 8727 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

From Paulus' Opinions, regulating the period during which an envoy who has performed public duties is exempt from being assigned the same task again, and the exemption of companions of governors and others from public duties, honors, and guardianships.

[PAULUS libro primo sententiarum. ] §50.5.12.prLegato, qui publicum negotium tuitus sit, intra tempora uacationis praestituta rursum eiusdem negotii defensio mandari non potest.
[PAULUS, in the first book of Opinions.] An envoy who has conducted a public business cannot, within the prescribed period of exemption, be again entrusted with the defense of the same business.
§50.5.12.1Comites praesidum et proconsulum procuratorumue Caesaris a muneribus uel honoribus et tutelis uacant.
The companions of governors, of proconsuls, or of the procurators of Caesar are exempt from public duties, honors, and guardianships.

Notes

  1. §50.5.12.prLegato — Dative case, functioning as the indirect object of the passive infinitive mandari (to be entrusted). The grammatical subject of the clause is defensio (defense), meaning 'the defense of the same business cannot be entrusted to the envoy'.
  2. §50.5.12.1procuratorumue Caesaris — Caesaris (genitive) modifies only the immediately preceding procuratorum (procurators), forming the specific title procuratores Caesaris (imperial procurators). It does not qualify the preceding praesidum (governors) or proconsulum (proconsuls).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.5.12.pr-50.5.12.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.5.12.pr-50.5.12.1

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